Speaking to media persons here on Monday, he said that the Supreme Court referred to form a scheme and not to set up a Board and set May 3 as the deadline to the Centre to frame and submit a draft of the same. "We have opposed the constitution of the Cauvery Management Board from the beginning and have written to the Prime Minister expressing our view. I have written to the Prime Minister that he should not succumb to pressure from Tamil Nadu to constitute the Board but frame a scheme as directed by the apex court." The State has also sought a draft of the scheme to be prepared by the Centre, and the State too has submitted a scheme.

Mr Siddaramaiah said he has sought time to meet the Prime Minister to explain the State's concern and view and is awaiting a response from him. The Supreme Court's deadline to frame and submit the draft of a scheme by May 3 came up on April 9 while hearing a contempt petition filed by Tamil Nadu against the Centre for its failure not to devise a framework to implement the apex court's February 16 order on the Cauvery water dispute.